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The Thiruvananthapuram Fast Track Special Court connected Friday (November 28, 2025) sentenced a 41-year-old antheral to 78 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a good of ₹4.75 lakh for repeatedly sexually assaulting his 13-year-old stepdaughter.
Special Judge Anju Meera Birla pronounced the sentence. The tribunal ruled that nonaccomplishment to wage the good volition effect successful an further four-and-a-half years of imprisonment. The tribunal besides directed that the good magnitude beryllium handed implicit to the survivor, and further instructed the District Legal Services Authority to supply due compensation.
According to the prosecution led by peculiar nationalist authoritative R.S. Vijay Mohan, the incidental occurred successful 2023 nether the Fort constabulary presumption limits, erstwhile the kid was studying successful seventh grade. After separating from her archetypal husband, the child’s parent entered into a narration with the accused and aboriginal joined him. A fewer months into the marriage, the antheral began sexually abusing the miss connected aggregate occasions.
The subsister did not uncover the ordeal to anyone initially aft the accused threatened her to stay silent. The maltreatment came to airy erstwhile the girl’s younger member witnessed 1 specified incidental and informed their mother. When confronted, the accused not lone denied responsibility, but besides brutally assaulted the mother. A constabulary ailment was filed pursuing the incident.
The tribunal rejected the accused’s plea for leniency, considering the sedate quality of the crime. The prosecution examined 17 witnesses, and presented 28 documents and 5 worldly objects. The probe was led by Fort Circle Inspector Rakesh J.
